Happy Friday, everyone! Did you miss this week's hottest headlines? SDxCentral has all the news bits from SDN, NFV, and much more.

SHOW ME THE MONEY

CradlePoint has raised a $48 million Series B round led by Sorenson Capital. The company provides cloud-managed LTE networking services for enterprises.

NEW TO MARKET

Pluribus unveiled a new version of its Netvisor OS. The updated release features REST APIs, VXLAN tunneling for virtual machine (VM) connectivity, and BGP fabrics and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol for data center scale-out and Hadoop.

ADVA Optical Networking released ConnectGuard, aimed at securing service provider and enterprise networks.

F5 added a Web Application Firewall to its Silverline family. The latest enhancement will protect against web application attacks and is built on the BIG-IP Application Security Manager.

Zscaler introduced Winter 2015, its cloud-based next-generation firewall.

Avi Networks released version 15.1 of its Cloud Application Delivery Platform, adding more support for Amazon Web Services.

COMING TOGETHER

In case you haven't gotten your fill of Nokia news this week, it appointed ex-Cisco exec Guido Jouret as its newest CTO.

Plumgrid became an Ubuntu Cloud partner and is also now the newest part of the Canonical OpenStack Interoperability Lab program (OIL).

The ONOS Project's board of directors is now set. Representatives include members from service providers AT&T, NTT Communications, and SK Telecom, and from vendors including Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, and NEC.

Telefónica signed a four-year contract that will make NEC its integrator of enterprise cloud services. NEC has already been working with Telefónica since 2009, but the new agreement means NEC will deliver Telefónica's Software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to SME customers.

Indatel chose Cyan's Z-Series packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP) and Blue Planet SDN software for a 100-Gb/s deployment.

Here’s what else SDxCentral covered lately:

• Hyperscale + White Box Switches: Prepare to Be Shocked
• France: Matchmaker to Nokia and Alctatel-Lucent?
• Nokia to Acquire Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 Billion
• Nokia-Alcatel Deal Could Push Ericsson Into M&A Mode
• Illumio Raises $100M Round, Talks Up Plans To Go Public
• Docker Inc. Raises Even More Money — $95M More
• Riverbed's SteelCentral Portal Brings Control & Visibility to Hybrid Networks
• Automation Startup StackStorm Finds Fans at Rackspace